I can't recall for sure, but I believe FAT16 has a small limit. ? If the BIOS is reporting 160gb @POST, it's not a BIOS issue as far as the size recognized is concerned. That would also indicate that size limitation jumper is not in place. Now it's possible the BIOS could be corrupted. Have you tried to slave the drive on your current PC just to see if all of it is seen? If so, then right click the drive and format it IN XP? -Clint
God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://www.OrpheusComputing.com http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com http://Computer-Hardware-Sales-Consumer-Electronics-Sales.com ----- Original Message ----- Peter: This time, (after stopping the low level format at 34%) I partitioned using fdisk. The drive reported to fdisk that there was only 32 Gb available. I created a dos partition of 2 Gb intending that it would be formatted as FAT 16. However when I installed Win XP it formatted the partition as NTFS. I should have formatted it as FAT 16 first. There are programs that need to run, so I will accept the smaller drive size until I can update the BIOS. Wally On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 10:22:15 -0400 Peter Kaulback > Wally, after you low level format the drive, do not use the > Seagate > tools to format again but instead just install XP and have XP > format > the > drive whole. > > I use Seagate drives primarily for client's and have never > used the > > vendor tools, just format with whatever OS's config tools > (Linux, > XP, > etc) and have had no problems thus far. Plus Seagate has a > nice long > > warranty too. > > Peter Kaulback > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hugh: > > The 160 Gb size is reported during POST. > > However when partitioning is tried, the Seagate > > tools have programmed the drive to report > > only 32 Gb available. > > I have never formatted to FAT 32. > > I have already formatted > > for NTFS and installed Windows XP plus SP 1. > > When an attempt is made to boot from the hard > > drive the computer reports that a file is missing > > and says to try rebooting. Rebooting just takes > > you back to the same notice. > > I believe that the file that is missing > > is the test file for NTFS systems which > > Windows XP has not installed. > > > > Wally ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
